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News
Oct - Nov 2024
Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress 2024: Adding 15 million years of health life
SHBC
was held on 10-11 October this year with PCFM making a number of contributions,
including Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis as a panellist in the Adding Life to Years
by Integrating Health and Social Care plenary, the SPARK booth promoting
primary care research opportunities, our Visiting Professor Jon Emery
presenting on the application of polygenic risk scores to tailor cancer
screening in primary care and Lee Eng Sing presenting a poster on primary care
research recruitment. Primary care research and translation also shone with
presentations from many of our NHGP colleagues including Sabrina Wong, Tang
Wern Ee, Ben Lam and award winners Quek Jing Sheng, Ng Xinyao, Sze Kai Ping,
Koh Jan Ming Ian, Chen Tongyuan and Julia Zhu Xiaoli.
On 12th of October the Primary Care Academy GP Symposium was hosted at LKCMedicine and was dedicated to advancing primary care practices in line with Healthier SG initiatives. The Primary Care Family Medicine Research Programme shared about SPARK (Singapore Primary Care Research and Knowledge) Network in a booth at the event. The event "Continuum of Care: Paving Pathways for a Healthier Community" had approximately 150 attendees.
Visiting Professor, Jon Emery
7-9 Oct: University of Melbourne Professor of Primary Care Cancer and LKCMedicine Visiting Professor Jon Emery provided important insights into cancer screening and risk stratification during his visit. He presented on this topic at SHBC 2024. Prof Emery will continue to assist with the development of LKCMedicine’s cancer prevention and early cancer detection programme.
Project
Soundkeeper Official Launch
16 Oct: The SoundKeepers Programme was officially launched with a media event. Soundkeepers is a three-year research study to develop an AI tool using voice biomarkers to detect early signs of depression (subsyndromal depression) in seniors and a community intervention programme to manage the condition outside healthcare settings. The study is led by LKCMedicine Primary Care Family Medicine Research Programme in collaboration with six partners: College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, National Healthcare Group Polyclinics and Institute of Mental Health, Fei Yue Community Services, Club HEAL and Lien Foundation. Click here for article.
Art
and Science of Medicine Festival 2024
19 Oct: LKCMedicine held its second Art & Science of Medicine Festival at Kampung Admiralty with the theme of “Connecting Medicine, Health & Life.” PCFM collaborated with OPEN, the Office for Patient Engagement, to engage the community and explore what would make it easier for Singaporeans to engage in cancer screening programmes. These insights will shape our developing Primary Care Cancer research theme.
Aug - Sept 2024
World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) 21-24 Aug 2024
Past, present and future: The important role of practice-based research network in generating and facilitating research
Type: Oral Presentation
Presentation Author: Associate Professor Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis
Introducing Riley” Your Personalized Evidence-Based Medicine Information Literacy Chatbot
Type: Workshop
Presenting Author: Asst Prof Lee Eng Sing and Ms Rebecca Lavanie David, Senior Medical Librarian, LKCMedicine
Engaging General Practitioners in Primary Care Research in Singapore: Lessons Learnt from the HOPE CVD-GP Research Project
Type: Poster Presentation
Presenting Author: Ms Sam Xin Hui, Research Fellow, LKCMedicine
Click here: (164) WONCA-APR-2024-PPT-ePoster 23-Aug-24
Understanding Singapore Health Professionals’ Career Planning and Development Behaviours
Type: Poster Presentation
Presenting Author: Ms Sam Xin Hui, Research Fellow, LKCMedicine
Click here: WONCA-APR-2024-PPT-ePoster_WDARF Study_v1.2_2024-08-20
April - May 2024
April – May 2024
Primary Care OPEN Patient and Public Engagement
27 April 2024: In collaboration with OPEN, LKCMedicine’s Primary Care and Family Medicine unit hosted 19 patients and carers to explore their experiences of chronic disease and cancer screening in primary care. This event is the first in a series of sessions that aims to co-design pathways to optimise patient experience and increase screening rates in Singapore.
PCFM hosted Visiting Professor, Sir Aziz Sheikh
9 – 16 May 2024: PCFM was delighted to host Prof Sir Aziz Sheikh, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development at Usher Institute in Edinburgh and incoming Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford. Prof Sheikh gave an inspiring lecture at LKCMedicine’s inaugural EXCEL seminar, highlighting the power of collaboration in driving research with translational outcomes. He presented on the future of primary care research, contributed to a data workshop with LKC, NHG and NHGP participants and provided mentoring to our medical students and research staff. As one of the most successful primary care researchers internationally, Prof Sheikh’s guidance will aid in the growing research primary care portfolio at LKC.
PCFM hosted Visiting Professor, Sir Aziz Sheikh
17 May 2024: LKCMed and NHGP hosted the management team of AstraZeneca Asia on 17 May. The team visited Kallang Polyclinic (hosted by Dr Valerie Teo) to understand the patient journey and how team-based care work in the polyclinic setting. The team were then reintroduced to the research work on National Precision Medicine and SG100K (Prof John Chambers), Hepatobiliary-Gut Dysfunction Research Programme (A/Prof Yusuf Ali), Primary Care Research Network (A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski Nankervis), Office of patient engagement (Ms Ai Ling Sim-Devadas) and current collaborations e.g., COPD prevalence and home spirometry study and multimorbidity education seminar.